COMT, catechol-O-methyltransferase, 1312

N. diseases: 622; N. variants: 47
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Catechol-o-methyltransferase (COMT) and proline dehydrogenase (PRODH) mRNAs in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression. 14618678 2004
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN We examined the relationship of a common functional polymorphism (Val108/158Met) in the COMT gene, which accounts for four-fold variation in enzyme activity, with 'early-onset' (EO) forms (less than or equal to 25 years) of MD, including patients with major depressive disorder (EO-MDD) and bipolar patients (EO-BPD), in a European multicenter case-control sample. 15583702 2005
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We examined the relationship of a common functional polymorphism (Val108/158Met) in the COMT gene, which accounts for four-fold variation in enzyme activity, with 'early-onset' (EO) forms (less than or equal to 25 years) of MD, including patients with major depressive disorder (EO-MDD) and bipolar patients (EO-BPD), in a European multicenter case-control sample. 15583702 2005
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The catechol-O-methyltransferase Val108/158Met polymorphism affects short-term treatment response to mirtazapine, but not to paroxetine in major depression. 15520843 2005
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE These observations support a possible role for catechol-o-methyltransferase polymorphism in the endocrine and subjective response to psychological stress and thus may qualify as a possible candidate gene involved in the pathogenesis of MDD. 17417063 2007
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The present results strongly point toward a negative influence of the higher activity COMT 158val/val genotype on antidepressant treatment response during the first 6 weeks of pharmacological treatment in major depression, possibly conferred by consecutively decreased dopamine availability. 17522626 2008
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE COMT Val158met polymorphism was genotyped in 334 Chinese major depressive disorder (MDD) patients who were treated with fluoxetine for at least 4 weeks. 18533273 2009
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Monoamine oxidase a and catechol-o-methyltransferase functional polymorphisms and the placebo response in major depressive disorder. 19593178 2009
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Variation in catechol-O-methyltransferase is associated with duloxetine response in a clinical trial for major depressive disorder. 19095219 2009
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In the present study, the effect of COMT val158met on response to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was analyzed in a sample of 104 Caucasian patients (f = 71, m = 33) with pharmacologically treatment-resistant Major Depression. 19309019 2010
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE This article presents associations of the COMT pain sensitivity haplotype and baseline pain levels in female patients with MDD. 20627703 2010
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We could not demonstrate any significant difference in the distribution of this COMT single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the treatment response to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or between patients with MDD and control subjects. 20071037 2010
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The aim of our work is to study the possible role of clinical variables, neuropsychological performance, and the 5HTTLPR, rs25531, and val108/58Met COMT polymorphisms in the prediction of the response to fluoxetine after 4weeks of treatment in a sample of patient with MDD. 20584552 2010
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The val158met polymorphism of the COMT gene exemplifies the lack of consensus in the literature: although it is one of the most reported polymorphisms that relates to MDD vulnerability, its role is not corroborated by meta-analysis. 20558238 2010
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We carried out this study to define the functional impact of COMT genotypes/haplotypes on susceptibility and on treatment response phenotypes of major depressive disorder (MDD). 20531207 2010
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In conclusion, we partially replicated our previous findings confirming a possible influence of COMT variants in MD and BD, particularly in early onset subjects, though not with the same risk genotypes. 21600957 2011
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Association of catechol-O-methyltransferase variants with duloxetine response in major depressive disorder. 21788083 2011
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE In the present study, we further elucidate the impact of COMT in treatment response in MDD patients with suicide risk and/or a personal history of suicide attempts. 21940152 2012
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We examined whether the COMT gene, which has been known to play a role in antidepressant treatment response in major depressive disorder (MDD), has a pharmacogenetic effect in antidepressant treatment response in GAD. 22417933 2012
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Investigating the impact of COMT on suicidal behaviour, we found a significant association with suicide risk in MDD patients not responding to antidepressant treatment, but not in responders. 22464339 2012
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Genetic variants in the catechol-o-methyltransferase gene are associated with impulsivity and executive function: relevance for major depression. 23008195 2012
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) pharmacogenetics in the treatment response phenotypes of major depressive disorder (MDD). 22483292 2012
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In self-identified white patients with major depressive disorder (N=126) treated with open-label duloxetine (60-120 mg/d), a significant association of (P=0.020) of a composite risk score (based on SLC6A2 rs5569 [G1287A] AA, HTR1A rs6295 [C(-1019)G] GG, and COMT rs174697 AA/AG) with 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale total score change from baseline to 12 weeks was observed. 22727709 2012
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Catechol-O-methyltransferase genotype as modifier of superior responses to venlafaxine treatment in major depressive disorder. 23706899 2013
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease PSYGENET Catechol-O-methyltransferase genotype as modifier of superior responses to venlafaxine treatment in major depressive disorder. 23706899 2013